I sustained a very bad road rash some 2 weeks ago. Blacked out from the pain. It’s healing nicely now with the care I gave it. Plus anti-biotics from the doc.

The process of tending to the wound didn’t come without pain: cleaning the wound, applying the cream, dressing the wound every other day, exposing it to more pain as I peeled and pasted the dressing over the wound. I had to sacrifice my exercise, not being able to sit comfortably without feeling the acute pain, not being able to walk normally. Felt so incapiciated. I needed to keep the wound dry and out of the sun to speed up healing and minimise scarring. Did it make me fear rollerblading again? Nope. Not at all. It taught me, though, a great lesson in HOW NOT to fall: the precautions I need to take if I still want to continue with the sports. I probably should wear crash pad but I don’t want to look like a Ninja Turtle!

Don’t mistake the pain for suffering. Healing process hurts. The pain is the bad news. The good news is I was healing and am healed. It just takes time lots of common-sense care. Meanwhile the anti-biotic medicine did the job I alone couldn’t do inside my body.

Meanwhile I was facing the frustration of not being able to function normally. Couldn’t sit and get up without feeling the wound being opened. Some days I forgot about the wound and would plan to exercise. It annoyed me majorly to remember I couldn’t, especially on days when I needed to let some steam off. Some parts of wound were superficial cuts while another part the skin was broken to expose the raw flesh. Sometimes it got itchy and not being able to resist the itch, I scratched it. It was a big mistake. It stung with a vengence.

I suppose this contains a parallel to the healing process for our emotional wounds as well. We need to tend to it as much as we in our capacity can with tenderloving care, and leave the healing to complete its process after that. The rest of it leave it to the Holy Spirit to do its work in us. We can’t feel Him working in us but it doesn’t mean He is not working in us. In time, the wound will heal, surely, though slowly. Don’t rush the healing process especially when the wound is deep. Frustration is inevitable. Take your focus off it and channel that energy into something else.

Last tots on this topic. If keeping the wound out of the sun has minimised scarring, does being in the valley help us heal in our emotional wounds?